Bug 257002 (CVE-2008-5987)

Summary:	<media-gfx/eog-2.22.3-r3 Untrusted search path vulnerability (CVE-2008-5987)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Stefan Behte (RETIRED) <craig>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	gnome
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504352
Whiteboard:	B2 [glsa]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	256619
Bug Blocks:

Description Stefan Behte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-01-30 22:32:25 UTC

CVE-2008-5987 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-5987):
  Untrusted search path vulnerability in the Python interface in eog
  2.22.3, and possibly other versions, allows local users to execute
  arbitrary code via a Trojan horse Python file in the current working
  directory, related to a vulnerability in the PySys_SetArgv function
  (CVE-2008-5983).

Comment 1 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-01-30 23:41:04 UTC

I am not sure whether this bug is being tracked upstream. Please see the blocker for details and a patch example.

Comment 2 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-02-24 17:27:00 UTC

2.22.3-r3 is in the tree.

Comment 3 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-02-25 17:10:04 UTC

Arches, please test and mark stable:
=media-gfx/eog-2.22.3-r3
Target keywords : "alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 ppc ppc64 sparc x86"

Comment 4 Markus Meier gentoo-dev

2009-02-25 20:07:07 UTC

amd64/x86 stable

Comment 5 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-02-26 14:48:53 UTC

alpha/ia64/sparc stable

can't do arm since it needs gnome-2.22 stable

Comment 6 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-02-26 16:49:02 UTC

Stable for HPPA.

Comment 7 Brent Baude (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-02-26 17:35:36 UTC

ppc64 done

Comment 8 Brent Baude (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-03-18 19:09:03 UTC

ppc done

Comment 9 Pierre-Yves Rofes (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-04-06 11:39:26 UTC

GLSA filed.

Comment 10 Pierre-Yves Rofes (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-04-06 22:10:03 UTC

GLSA 200904-06